The Caryatides From The "Stanza Dell' Eliodoro" In The Vatican, Designed By Raffaelle D'Urbino. Engraved & Edited By Lewis Gruner.
RA Collection: Book
Record number
06/6046
Imprint
London: , MDCCCLII.
Physical Description
[4] p., engr. t.pl., engr. dedic., [15] pl.; 445 mm.
General Note
The text refers to XVII plates - by taking those plates which show two caryatids as two plates and by including the title-plate (which also carries an image of one of the caryatids).
Contents
[Engr. t.pl., engr. dedic.] - [Text] - [Plates].
Responsibility Note
The text is signed as by Dr. H.W. Schulz.
Several plates carry the initial 'R'; five carry the initials 'AK', which the first plate explains to be the engraver A. Krüger.
The work is dedicated by L. Gruner to the Revd. Henry Willesby, D.D., Principal of New Inn Hall, Oxford.
References
Italy. Ministero per i Beni Culturali e Ambientali. Istituto Nazionale Per la Grafica, Raphael invenit: Stampe ... Catalogo di Grazia Bernini Pezzini [et al.] (1985), p.53, 330.
Provenance
Purchased for RA Library in 1870 (see 'Librarian's Report for the year 1870', RA Annual Report, Appendix No. 6, p. 26).
Mural painting and decoration, Italian - Paintings, Italian - Interior decoration - Palaces - Italy - Rome - Vatican City - Vatican Palace (Vatican City) - History - 16th century - Renaissance
Art history - Great Britain - 19th century
Pictorial works - Great Britain - 19th century